Microsoft Teams – Retirement of Together Mode

Microsoft’s Together Mode was a way to display all the attendees in a meeting using seating and backgrounds that made it look like everyone was attending a virtual meeting in person. However, Microsoft has chosen to retire Together Mode, and make the gallery the default meeting view and layout for multi-participant layouts. Here’s the information that Microsoft has provided…

Adding a co-organizer to a Teams meeting

By default, a Microsoft Teams meeting has a single organizer that can handle all the meeting settings. But there are times when you will want to have a co-organizer who can also do things if you’re not available. I would suggest that you might ALWAYS want to have one unless it’s a very small meeting. Here’s how you can set that up…

Hiding Quick Link view in Microsoft Teams if there’s nothing to see there

Microsoft has been adding a number of new Quick Views in Microsoft Teams to let you know when you’re named in a Teams conversation (Follow), when you’ve been mentioned (Mentions), or when you’ve forgotten to send a Teams chat (Drafts). That’s all well and good, but those new views take up room in the navigation pane. Now Microsoft has added a feature to allow you to decide if you want to always see the Quick View or only see it if there’s something there. Here’s how that works…